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I thought I didn’t know enough and it’s holding me back more than it needs to. Your reminded me that it’s all about sharing what you know because there will always be someone better than you at something so it’s best to be honest with your customers.

Thank you, Henri for this post. It is definitely food for thought at the start of this new year. I constantly have to remind myself that I am “enough” as I am and that there is no need to be an expert or perfect in every respect.
Happy New Year.

We all know enough, what makes an expert is confidence in our knowledge and the ability to pass our knowledge on.

You all know something somebody else doesn’t. Just think of a time someone in your office wanted to do something for the first time: how to link documents using Word, or how to plan a presentation, how to change a wheel of their car, how to buy a house, and you were able to help them by showing them how and giving them the knowledge that they can use forever.

That’s what an expert does.

It’s not what an expert *is*, it’s what they do that counts to those on the receiving end.

If you know how to set up a blog, there are plenty of people who don’t and want to. To them your knowledge of setting up blogs is valuable.

They problably don’t care whether you’re a blog set-up expert or not, all they care about is that you know how to set one up, and that you’re willing and able to show them how. That knowledge is your product, or service, which ever name you chose for your provision of knowledge.

You just need to add courage and belief in yourself to offer your knowledge to those who want it. To overcome those doubts like Henri did. Once you realise you’re yearning to share your knowledge with others and provide them with the means to do what they want, you’ll discover how freeing and joyous it is.

My first articles were rather bad, I think, because I was so insecure about not being an expert. I overcompensated and made myself out to be a big personal development guru, seeming way too sure about stuff which was closer to speculation or an embellishment of what grounding I did have in the subject.

I later realised that I didn’t have to know it all, and I could write down to Earth stuff coming from my experiences and intuitions without struggling to hide from my lack of knowledge in some areas.